The black of the ocean waves was the color of the sorrow in my breast, a sorrow that was never far away and always visible.
The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practi...
The church the Bible described is exciting and adventurous and wrought with sacrifice. It cost believers everything, and they still came.
Then it kissed me—not as a man would kiss a lover, not with tenderness or even passion. This was a kiss that stole the soul of men. Revulsion at this creature’s kiss was instantly replaced by the warm...
Iona stared at me for a long time. “You are going to leave me a widow before I have a chance to become a bride.
My life was going exactly where I wanted it to until the Devil showed up.
I did not choose to be a monster—a shell of a man—half-human, half-fiend. I am a tiefling. I am what I am.
I was once a man, not a great man, not a saintly man, but a good man, and a man nonetheless.
God himself had sent me away. I was truly now among the damned.
No wild beasts are so deadly to humans as most Christians are to each other.
In Acts, every believer was living in a direct relationship with Him (Christ) and each one functioned normally as a member of His body in oneness with all believers.
